Re: strange empia device

2014-09-02 Thread Lorenzo Marcantonio
On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 07:58:52PM -0400, Andy Walls wrote: A Merlin firmware of 16 kB strongly suggests that this chip has an integarted Conexant CX25843 (Merlin Audio + Thresher Video = Mako) Broadtcast A/V decoder core. The chip might only have a Merlin integrated, but so far I've never

Re: strange empia device

2014-09-02 Thread Andy Walls
On September 2, 2014 2:28:23 AM EDT, Lorenzo Marcantonio l.marcanto...@logossrl.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 07:58:52PM -0400, Andy Walls wrote: A Merlin firmware of 16 kB strongly suggests that this chip has an integarted Conexant CX25843 (Merlin Audio + Thresher Video = Mako)

Re: strange empia device

2014-09-02 Thread Frank Schäfer
Am 02.09.2014 um 08:28 schrieb Lorenzo Marcantonio: On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 07:58:52PM -0400, Andy Walls wrote: A Merlin firmware of 16 kB strongly suggests that this chip has an integarted Conexant CX25843 (Merlin Audio + Thresher Video = Mako) Broadtcast A/V decoder core. The chip might

Re: strange empia device

2014-09-01 Thread Frank Schäfer
Am 31.08.2014 um 17:41 schrieb Lorenzo Marcantonio: On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 04:50:08PM +0200, Frank Schäfer wrote: Hmm... could you send us the output of lsusb -v -d 1b80:e31d ? Sure, here is it. However it seems that roxio violated the most sacred USB rule (i.e. they use that vid/pid for two

Re: strange empia device

2014-09-01 Thread Lorenzo Marcantonio
On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 08:14:25PM +0200, Frank Schäfer wrote: What's the other device using this vid:pid and which hardware does it use ? The previous generation of the tool: http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/RoxioEasyVHStoDVD ... an easycap DC60+ clone. Doubly hating it since I bought

Re: strange empia device

2014-09-01 Thread Frank Schäfer
Am 01.09.2014 um 21:03 schrieb Lorenzo Marcantonio: On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 08:14:25PM +0200, Frank Schäfer wrote: What's the other device using this vid:pid and which hardware does it use ? The previous generation of the tool: http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/RoxioEasyVHStoDVD ...

Re: strange empia device

2014-09-01 Thread Andy Walls
On Sun, 2014-08-31 at 16:47 +0200, Frank Schäfer wrote: Hi Lorenzo, Am 25.08.2014 um 21:01 schrieb Lorenzo Marcantonio: Just bought a roxio video capture dongle. Read around that it was an easycap clone (supported, then); it seems it's not so anymore :( It identifies as 1b80:e31d Roxio

Re: strange empia device

2014-08-31 Thread Frank Schäfer
Hi Lorenzo, Am 25.08.2014 um 21:01 schrieb Lorenzo Marcantonio: Just bought a roxio video capture dongle. Read around that it was an easycap clone (supported, then); it seems it's not so anymore :( It identifies as 1b80:e31d Roxio Video Capture USB (it also uses audio class for audio) Now

Re: strange empia device

2014-08-31 Thread Frank Schäfer
Am 31.08.2014 um 16:47 schrieb Frank Schäfer: Hi Lorenzo, Am 25.08.2014 um 21:01 schrieb Lorenzo Marcantonio: Just bought a roxio video capture dongle. Read around that it was an easycap clone (supported, then); it seems it's not so anymore :( It identifies as 1b80:e31d Roxio Video Capture

Re: strange empia device

2014-08-31 Thread Lorenzo Marcantonio
On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 04:50:08PM +0200, Frank Schäfer wrote: Hmm... could you send us the output of lsusb -v -d 1b80:e31d ? Sure, here is it. However it seems that roxio violated the most sacred USB rule (i.e. they use that vid/pid for two different kinds of hardware); in fact even people on

strange empia device

2014-08-25 Thread Lorenzo Marcantonio
Just bought a roxio video capture dongle. Read around that it was an easycap clone (supported, then); it seems it's not so anymore :( It identifies as 1b80:e31d Roxio Video Capture USB (it also uses audio class for audio) Now comes the funny thing. Inside there is the usual E2P memory, a